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Dublin Dr Pepper

Fixed some ribs made with a homemade Dublin Dr Pepper BBQ sauce last weekend and was wondering if Dublin Dr Pepper is known much outside of North Texas. Dublin Dr Pepper is an institution around here. They are the world’s oldest Dr Pepper bottling plant (1891) and still use the original Dr Pepper formula with Imperial Pure Cane Sugar. They are in a lawsuit with DR Pepper for distributing it outside of the 44 mile Dublin area which means I might have to travel to Dublin (TX) to get my fix.

So is the Dublin Dr Pepper facility separated from Dr Pepper itself? How can Dr Pepper sue Dr Pepper?

Dublin is a bottler. Each bottler is a franchisee with an exclusive region. Dr. Pepper/Snapple is claiming that Dublin is violating their agreement by selling outside its region and competing with other bottlers.

So is the Dublin Dr Pepper facility separated from Dr Pepper itself? How can Dr Pepper sue Dr Pepper?

Dr Pepper Snapple Group is the brand owner, which says the Dublin Dr Pepper facility violated trademarked labeling designs and sold its sugar-sweetened beverage beyond its franchise's boundaries.

Dublin is a very small town and I think Tourism to visit the bottling plant is the only industry there. I was there once covering a story for the paper about UFO sightings there in 2008. Boy, that was a zoo...

We can thank my old Cuban refugee buddies in Miami for making HFCS cheaper than cane sugar in the US, what with the old 1960's Anti-Castro government price supports causing us to pay 3-4 times market price. Not that folks like ADM and Conagra mind selling all of that corn sugar. By the way, did you all know that HFCs is bacteria poop? This was several years ago, but I saw the glass bottle of Dublin Doctor Pepper for sale in a gift shop in the Ft. Worth stockyards and it was priced like imported beer.